From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: initial grub menu over ethernet
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:58:31 -0400 (EDT)
> - GRUB should be able to run batch-files, i.e. interpret commands in the
> files it reads.
Agreed. The feature will be necessary to help GNU/Hurd anyway.
> - TFTP server should be able to serve different files to different IP's
> even if the requested name is the same (I don't know any implementation)
IIRC, utftpd has the support.
> This way you can do a lot, but you must know some things beforehand (i.e.
> partition layout on all machines) because you don't get any feedback.
Actually, you can do the same thing with the current GRUB, since you
may set up bootpd so that it serves different configuration for each
clients.
BTW, I don't think network console support is so difficult to
implement. Basically, it requires only reliable connection and console
emulation, so the effort would be mostly the same as for serial
console support.
> I don't want to make GRUB a mini-OS, but on the other side, network
> support is quite common.
Fully agreed. We shouldn't forget that GRUB is a boot loader but not
an OS.
Okuji
